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Grow your business with Azure

How partners build toward market leadership with Azure.

Why Azure: The intelligent cloud to grow your practice

Learn the value, benefits, and opportunities of Azure partnership.
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Grow your SMB business with Azure

Learn why Azure is the cloud of choice for SMBs—and how partners can grow with it.
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Partner success stories

See how Azure partners are building practices and delivering customer outcomes today.
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Go to market resources

Azure Solution Plays turn strategy into outcomes with clear offers, repeatable motions, and guidance that helps you win deals and build a durable practice.
  • As AI adoption accelerates, modernizing data on Azure creates partner opportunity. Public cloud grew 21.3% in 2026 toward $1.48T by 2029. Partners who lead with modernization see 2x topline growth by guiding customers from infrastructure to analytics and AI.
  • Keep pace with rapid innovation and equip your team with the skills needed to deliver migration and modernization projects. Microsoft offers a range of training options—from self-paced Microsoft Learn courses to hands-on workshops and virtual labs. Partners can access specialized content for infrastructure, database, and app modernization, plus resources for AI and security. Leverage the Cloud & AI Platform Skilling Hub and LevelUp for flexible learning, or join in-person events to connect with experts and peers. Build expertise, boost confidence, and deliver value to your customers.
  • In a competitive market, customers seek trusted advisors to guide their ai AND cloud journey. Microsoft’s Solutions Partner Designation and specializations for Migration and Modernization help partners showcase their capabilities and build credibility. Demonstrate your expertise in core workloads like Windows Server, SQL, Linux, VMware, SAP, and Oracle. Unlock faster engagements and build customer trust with Microsoft validation. Partners like Version 1 have achieved high retention and satisfaction by focusing on modernization outcomes.
  • Drive leads, accelerate customer conversations, and close deals faster with Microsoft’s go-to-market resources. Access customizable campaigns, product pitch materials, and solution playbooks for migration and modernization. With Azure Accelerate, partners get access to unified offers and incentives, faster approvals, and expert support to help you deliver impact at scale. Publish your solutions to the Commercial Marketplace and connect with other partners in the Microsoft Partner Community to expand your reach.
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Partner pitch decks

Use these decks in customer conversations to drive impact today.
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L100 pitch deck: Migrate and modernize your estate

Present a compelling story on why migrate and modernize to Azure.
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L200 pitch deck: Migrate and modernize your estate

Show how Azure supports customers’ cloud transformation efforts.
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L100 pitch deck: Microsoft Fabric

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L200 pitch deck: Fabric + Azure AI Foundry

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Azure Accelerate

Win more cloud and AI business with access to incentives and zero-cost joint delivery, backed by Microsoft experts, funding, and a unified go-to-market motion.

Unlock funding to remove budget friction and speed decisions

Access funding across project types and phases to lower upfront costs. Use funded pilots and proof of value to de-risk proposals and move customers from evaluation to execution faster.
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Scale delivery fast with Cloud Accelerate Factory and joint Microsoft expert support.

Take on bigger, more complex workloads without new headcount.
Learn more about Cloud Accelerate Factory

Move faster using proven best practices, assessments, and frameworks

Equip yourself with foundational guidance, resources and tooling to deliver consistent, high quality Azure engagements, faster and with less risk.
Explore Azure Essentials

Differentiate your AI engagements with industry benchmarking and prescriptive guidance.

Use data‑driven assessments and peer benchmarks to guide customers toward the right AI priorities and next moves.
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Accelerate migrations with Dr Migrate

Use assessment tooling to quickly surface infrastructure, database, and application insights. Reduce errors, create precise plans, and streamline handoffs that keep projects on track and secure.
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Grow your AI services pipeline with the AI Transformation Offer

Land and expand more AI deals with a repeatable motion, Microsoft-backed specialists, and funding that reduces customer risk. Differentiate your practice, accelerate time to value, and drive services revenue—from strategy to build, secure, and scale.
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Small and medium businesses

Grow your SMB business with Azure
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Migrate and modernize your estate

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Unify your data platform

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Innovate with Azure AI apps and agents

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Partner Stories

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“As a partner, our role is to take those tools, like Microsoft Fabric, and apply them in a way that directly addresses the unique needs of customers like Crane.”
Chandler Stevens, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at iLink Digital
Products
Microsoft Fabric
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Databricks
Power BI
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“CAMDA, supported by Microsoft Fabric and Prodata, has one team using one system and one meta driven pipeline giving us a proven 20x efficiencies.”
Eoin O’Sullivan, Director of Data Engineering and Analytics at Carne Group
Products
Microsoft Fabric
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure
Power BI
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“Microsoft doesn’t just give you the tools, they give you the opportunity to grow. From sales materials to funding programs to direct customer introductions, the support is truly end-to-end.”
Kirat Pandya, Co-founder and CEO at Osmos
Products
Microsoft Fabric
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Next steps

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Azure partners on LinkedIn

Stay connected to the Azure updates that matter most to partners

Follow the Azure partners LinkedIn page to stay connected to key announcements, updates and moments that matter for Azure partners.
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Azure partner blog

Azure updates and guidance for partners

Get the latest Azure partner updates, programs, skilling, and go-to-market resources in one place. Explore the Azure partner blog series.
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Software development companies

Let’s create the future together

Explore how Microsoft supports software development at every stage. Build and publish apps more quickly with personalized technical guidance and comprehensive developer platforms from Microsoft.
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Azure partner newsletter

Get the latest Azure updates—curated for partners

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News

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Offers

Reduce sales friction with Microsoft Agent Factory

Bundle your services with Microsoft Agent Factory Pre-Purchase Plan and customer skilling to break customer barriers and drive greater adoption.
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Partner preview webinar

Lead customer conversations with agentic AI migration and modernization

Watch the exclusive partner preview of the Microsoft Azure Summit: Migrate and Modernize with Agentic AI — now available on demand.
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Next fiscal partner kickoff

Join us July 28 to hear what's ahead for Azure

Join our Start for Partners event to learn Azure priorities to accelerate your business growth, including partner programs, investments, and opportunities to drive customer growth.
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Frequently asked questions

  • Becoming an Azure partner starts by joining the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program, unlocking resources, tools, and community support to grow your business. After enrolling, you get a Partner ID, can access the Action Pack, and tap into training, support, and the Partner Community to build and scale your Microsoft practice.
  • Azure helps reduce costs through Hybrid Benefit, reservations, and savings plans—cutting spend by up to 35%4. Cost Management and Advisor offer real‑time optimization. Tools like the Pricing Calculator support budgeting. Azure’s OpEx model, autoscaling, and right‑sizing boost efficiency, while its open, flexible platform enables rapid innovation.
  • Azure Solution Plays give partners structured playbooks and GTM strategies aligned to Microsoft solution areas. They guide AI services, cloud migrations, and security solutions, helping partners grow revenue, prove expertise, and access incentives, marketing resources, and tools that drive more wins and customer confidence.
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    IDC Info Snapshot, sponsored by Microsoft, 1.3 Billion AI Agents by 2028, May 2025 #US53361825
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    IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Microsoft, Unlocking and Accelerating Growth in an AI World , doc #US53392025 , June 2025
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    2023 survey was conducted by Forrester Research with ITDMs in US (N=150), UK (N=28), FR (N=25), DE (N=22), in 5,000+ companies, heavily involved in the selection of partners to support their company’s cloud journey.
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    Savings of up to 35% based on Azure Savings Plan for databases compared to pay‑as‑you‑go pricing on eligible services. Actual savings vary by workload, configuration, and commitment term.